Raw Story reports: Hans Küng is appealing to priests and churchgoers to confront the Catholic hierarchy, which he says is corrupt, lacking credibility and apathetic to the real concerns of the church’s members. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Küng, who had close contact with the pope when the two worked together as young [Read More...]

Not only does approving an abortion necessary to save a woman’s life in a case where her fetus would die in either case get you automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, but so does seeking ordination while being female. Lifelong Catholic Janine Denomme this week was denied a Roman Catholic burial for having the [Read More...]

What occasions such a visit? Church historians said that the Vatican usually ordered an apostolic visitation when a particular institution had gone seriously astray. And there is some resistance among those being offered a visit. Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in [Read More...]